Workers report from Japan
By Anna GroffOn March 14, Mennonite Mission Network reported that all mission workers and associates located in Japan were safe. However, the earthquake and subsequent disasters impacted the workers' lives and the lives of those they know. Associate editor Anna Groff emailed the five contacts on March 15 for updates and below are parts of the responses she received ... Read more ...
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Healthcare professionals form new organization
By Everett J. Thomas Mennonite Medical Association and the Mennonite Nurses Association will cease to exist as separate organizations and form the Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship. At the Mennonite Health Assembly in San Antonio on March 11, Jone Friesen (left), from Tulsa, Okla., and Phyllis Mishler (right), from North Newton, Kan., announced that the merger will take place at a June 23-36 gathering for members from both organizations. The gathering will be at the Laurelville Retreat Center in Mount Pleasant, Pa. Friesen said the organization is for individuals with Anabaptist values working in health care; its purpose will be to help heathcare providers integrate faith and practice.
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Goshen radio station named best in the country
From Goshen CollegeGoshen (Ind.) College's radio station WGCS 91.1 FM-The Globe isn't a huge operation, but the sounds coming out of it are making a big impact. Competing against every college and university in the country of all sizes, the student-operated station was named this year's Best College Station in the Nation on March 12 at the 71st Annual Conference of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System in New York City ... Read more ...
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College Corner: Goshen students encouraged to listen and keep listening
By Mary E. Klassen"Ten years ago I was a guest at one of these banquets and never thought I would be a speaker at one," Rolando Sosa Granados told more than 50 Goshen (Ind.) College students at a vocations banquet at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind., on March 8 ...  Annabeth Tucker, a student at Goshen (Ind.) College, talks with Marlene Kropf, AMBS professor, following the vocations banquet on March 8. Photo by Mary E. Klassen.Read more ...
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Tim's blog: Patterns of this world, part 3: Institutions through the Window of Jesus
 In this post I'll look at the history of this thought in the Anabaptist tradition as well as Mennonite and feminist critique of Neihbur and Burkholder. I'll continue to draw heavily from The Limits of Perfection: A Conversation with J. Lawrence Burkholder as well as The Feminist Case against Bureaucracy ... Read more ...
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